This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.“Assiduously researched, compulsively readable.” — LA Review of Books“A richly woven work of narrative nonfiction.” — The Spectator“An intimate portrait of the country.” — Foreign AffairsIn the early 1990s, Europe’s most closed and repressive state began a startling transformation. After forty years of Communist isolation, Albanians who had been banned from pract...

An essential agricultural text originally published in 1922, Farm Mechanics is exactly that: a detailed but easy-to-understand manual outlining all the important aspects of working the land.The guide is broken up into sections that cover every aspect of farm work, from woodworking and cement-laying to farm machinery repair. Informative and easy to understand, with close to five hundred illustrations and photographs, Farm Mechanics is both a historical reference fo...

Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. Place refers to geographical and constructed places—location, topography, landscape, and buildings. It also refers to the psychological, social, and cultural influences at work at a given location. These elements act in concert to constitute a place.Carlisle incorporates perspectives from writers like Edward S. Casey...

The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price.This study examines human interactions with t...

A vivid portrait of a Scottish religious leader and the South Carolina colony he helped shapeWhen Alexander Garden, a Scottish minister of the Church of England, arrived in South Carolina in 1720, he found a colony smoldering from the devastation of the Yamasee War and still suffering from economic upheaval, political factionalism, and rampant disease. It was also a colony turning enthusiastically toward plantation agriculture, made possible by African slave labor....

About ten years ago, the author began taking his blood pressure regularly and recording it so he could see how well his blood pressure medication was working. For two years, he’d followed his doctor’s orders but was suffering from dizziness, light-headedness, a lack of energy, and other side effects from taking medication that was meant to lower his blood pressure. He also began documenting how much time and energy he was spending trying to control his blood pressure. His efforts resulted ...

This is a compact and userfriendly Japanese to English dictionary.The Tuttle Compact Japanese Dictionary is an updated and expanded version of Martin's Concise Japanese Dictionary, the favorite dictionary of students of Japanese for more than 30 years. A valuable reference for foreigners learning Japanese is the inclusion of declensions for common verbs at the back. The layout of the dictionary is extremely easy to use. Headwords are highlighted ...

Every serious student of Japanese needs a reliable and user-friendly dictionary in their collection.Tuttle Concise Japanese Dictionary, now with 30% more content, is a completely updated dictionary designed for students and business people who are living in Japan and using the Japanese language on a daily basis. Its greatest advantage is that it contains recent idiomatic expressions which have become popular in the past several years and which are not foun...

I swung myself up the gangplank amidst the waving handkerchiefs of my school-mates who were bidding me goodbye. I remember standing still, holding on to the railing as the boat glided out into the wide, soft darkness. I stood my ground without a tear until I saw a sweet, tear-stained face come into view. It was my mother. As she squeezed through the crowds, the heat and confusion almost overcame me. I remember whispering through the dark and the stillness, 'Oh God, be with us that we may m...

How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory of

Transform yourself from a trusted strategic advisor to a trusted strategic influencer. Become the advisor/influencer leaders rely on for strategic clarity and trusted counsel.Executives face relentless pressure, ambiguity, and isolation, requiring advisors who deliver actionable counsel. In Influencing Leaders, James E. Lukaszewski and Helio Fred Garcia provide the proven framework for becoming a trusted strategic influencer partner that leaders turn to wh...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.An ancient tomb. A sealed chamber. A warning that should never have been ignored.Egypt, 1906. Near the ruins of Karnak, young German draftsman Heinrich Seidel joins an archaeological expedition led by the ambitious Dr. Friedrich Albers. What begins as a promising excavation soon leads to a hidden passage, a wall sealed in a strange and unsettling way, and a chamber that seems less like a burial place than a prison.Inside...